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Prepare For Trouble :: By Nathele Graham

Published on: by RR10

How many reasons for preparation can you think of? In my younger days, trying to juggle a full-time job and being a wife and mother wasn’t always easy. I made things easier by preparing. On weekends, I would cook a turkey or a pot of spaghetti, which would last for a few days. That way, I didn’t have to spend precious time after work trying to get dinner ready, and I could spend more time with my family.

Most people will prepare for a road trip by being sure the car gets an oil change and the tires are in good condition. Clothes get packed, snacks are readied, and entertainment for the kids is essential. Quite often, I would pack a book to read aloud while my husband drove. These are all simple things that make life easier.

Recently, I’ve started listening to Ryan Hall, Y’all on YouTube. He’s a weatherman who I trust to have good information regarding storms. This past week, he said a major storm was coming and that everyone on the path should prepare. I listened to his advice. My daughter and I spent the morning putting things away so that when the wind hit, there would be little to blow around. We also got water and finger food in case we lost electricity.

When we had prepared as much as humanly possible, I said a prayer for God’s protection and watched live reports about the storm, and it was bad. The wind blew the roof off of a school just 4 miles from my home, and fires destroyed houses. Thank the Good Lord that my home had no damage.

Then reports came in about tornadoes in Rolla, MO, which is where my daughter works. I’m thankful she was off that day. The damage was hard to take in. Huge trees were uprooted and slammed onto houses, electric poles were snapped, and businesses sustained much damage. I was thankful that my daughter’s job had little damage to it. It’s a farm and home supply store, and they were able to open the next day and provide much-needed products to a community that was severely damaged.

In all of this disaster, I wondered how many people listened to the warnings to prepare for the storm. Much of the damage could not be prepared for, such as a tree crashing into houses, but having food and bottled water or a generator on hand would be wise. Knowing where to go to take shelter from the storm is a good preparation. When the storms come, everybody is affected.

As I thought about all of this, I thought of God and how He has helped us to prepare for the storms in life. If you pay attention to Biblical prophecy, you’ll know that a huge storm is coming. This storm is known by many names, such as The Time of Jacob’s Trouble, Daniel’s Seventieth Week, or the Tribulation. God has done everything He can to help us prepare for the trouble that will soon come, but many people are blind to prophecy.

Most preachers won’t preach about prophecy because it’s too scary or too complicated. Their silence does a great disservice to the congregation. On the other hand, many in the congregation would rather have their ears tickled than hear God’s truth. God said it would happen.

“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables” (2 Timothy 4:3-4).

This verse reveals so much that is wrong with many churches today. Paul warned Timothy, and us, about such teachings. Be sure you are part of a Christ-centered, Bible-believing fellowship. They are becoming scarce.

When the Pharisees and the Sadducees mockingly came to Jesus asking for a sign from heaven, “He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?” (Matthew 16:2-3).

Many people will listen to the weather forecast and prepare for snow, rain, wind, hurricanes, or tornadoes but will totally ignore the more certain prophetic forecast from God. People seem more interested in the weather than in Biblical prophecy.

The Holy Spirit-filled Scripture with prophecy is for a reason; God wants us to be prepared for the times in which we live. The disciples were curious about the end times and asked Jesus about it. They had no idea that it would be over 2,000 years for all things to be fulfilled. Jesus described the signs to look for, and the first warning He gave was against deception.

“And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many” (Matthew 24:4-5).

There are many who preach a false Gospel and deceive many. Be sure to filter all teaching through Scripture. Jesus went on to describe more signs of the times.

“And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows“ (Matthew 24:6-8).

I’ve noticed these things happening and becoming stronger, but Jesus said it’s just the beginning of the end. There is much more to come, but the pieces of the puzzle are all falling into place. A very sad prophecy that is falling into place is that all nations will turn against Israel. It makes no sense for all nations to be against such a small nation like Israel. Still, it’s happening just like God said it would. It’s beyond my thinking to understand how the world can support such a blood-thirsty nation like Iran but come against Israel. God tells us to pray for Israel and bless that nation. Do you do that? I hope so.

God still loves Israel, and one day they will recognize that Jesus is the Messiah, and they will turn to Him for help. That’s when God will turn His attention back to Israel and fight their war. Christians will be safe at Home with God prior to the Tribulation and the final battle. Take comfort in that fact.

Peter had walked with Jesus and learned from Him for 3 years, and he witnessed the marvelous things that Jesus did. Peter was one of the disciples present when the Transfiguration happened, and he heard the voice of God the Father. What a wonderful but frightening experience that would have been. Peter had learned a lot over the years. Experiences are impressive, but Biblical prophecy is more certain. Biblical prophecy is from God, so we know it’s true, and it will happen just as God says it will.

“For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty” (2 Peter 1:16).

Peter knew who Jesus was and knew that this faith wasn’t based upon false hope. Jesus was, is, and always will be God incarnate. “For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory. This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount” (2 Peter 1:17-18).

All that Peter saw and heard was very impressive, but along the way, Peter’s faith faltered because of fear. When Jesus was arrested, it was Peter who denied knowing Him. It’s easy to have a lapse of faith when we allow fear to lead us rather than having solid faith in God. Jesus forgave Peter, and Peter came to understand that experiences can fade, but God’s truth will never fail.

“We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost” (2 Peter 1:19-21).

Biblical prophecy will always be fulfilled.

Had the religious leaders of Biblical times paid attention to prophecy, they would have recognized Jesus as the Messiah, but they didn’t. Because of their blindness, they weren’t prepared for the Messiah to set them free from all bondage. If they had only believed the Scripture they claimed to follow, things would have been better.

Many years earlier, Daniel was given a prophecy regarding the Messiah, and this should have told the Jewish leaders that it was time for the Messiah to come. This prophecy is known as Daniel’s 70 weeks. Just like our weather forecasts will tell of weather conditions so we can be prepared for a coming storm, God gives us prophecy so we can prepare for life. The prophecy given to Daniel said that the Messiah would be “cut off” (killed) and that Jerusalem would be destroyed. It also told of an evil man who will rule.

“And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abomination he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate” (Daniel 9:27).

This is a little hard to understand, but basically it means that the Temple will be rebuilt, and a covenant will be confirmed for seven years. But, in the middle of those seven years, the covenant will be broken by the Anti-Christ. Jesus also spoke of the end of time and confirmed the prophecy given to Daniel.

“When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) Then let them which be in Judaea flee unto the mountains: Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes” (Matthew 24:15-18).

Remember, those final seven years will be all about bringing Israel back to faith in God, not about Christians. It will be very troublesome times. Christians will have already been taken Home in the Rapture, and this is directed to the Jewish people.

“For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be” (Matthew 24:21).

This will be a time like no other — a time that you will not want to be living on Earth. To find out more details about the horrors of that day, read Revelation beginning in chapter 6. If you pay attention to the news of the world, you can see that all the things described as happening in the Trihulation are being set in place today. Pay attention to the signs of the times, and you can be prepared.

The prophecies concerning the last days will be fulfilled whether you prepare or not. If you’re living at that time, you will be affected. Just like the tornado warning, it was announced, and people could either heed the warning or face the consequences. If the warning was heeded and people took shelter, they were safe. If the warnings were ignored, destruction came upon them.

The question is, how is it possible to prepare for the Great Tribulation – the final years of Earth’s history? The only way to prepare is to place your faith in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Do it today. Only the saving Grace of Jesus will take you away from the evils of those final days and shelter you from all harm. God always saves His followers from wrath. As Christians, our righteousness is through Jesus Christ. Our faith in Him will see us taken Home in the Rapture prior to God’s wrath upon the unbelieving world.

“For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do” (1 Thessalonians 5:9-11).

Jesus will protect His bride.

Prepare for trouble by placing your faith in Jesus Christ. He is the way, the truth, and the life, and the only way of salvation.

God bless you all,

Nathele Graham
twotug@embarqmail.com

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Good News, Bad News :: By Daymond Duck

Published on: by RR10

An astute reader recently sent me his opinion about the global attitude toward Israel and the resulting global havoc on earth, and I decided to pass it on.

The reader said: As I see it…

  • The world, in majority, is taking a stand against Israel and the Jews, and it is increasing, not because of anything the Jews do or don’t do, have done or not done, but because of what Israel and the Jews represent, which is a special covenant with Almighty YHVH GOD.
  • Why? Because what is soon coming about (I believe) is very bad news for those who reject and proudly rebel against Almighty YHVH GOD…the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
  • If we are in the End Times timeline I think we are in, the cast is being set, and Islam is taking its last stand that will increasingly wreak havoc on the world, including eventually right here in the United States…
  • BOTTOM LINE: What is coming quickly is really bad news for most of the world…what is coming quickly…is very GOOD NEWS (Gospel) for us secured in Jesus, The Christ.

(More: Compass eNews puts it like this: Millions missing, billions die.).

(Note: In last week’s article, I reported that a Trump-appointed representative told the UN General Assembly the Sustainable Development Goals [climate change, wealth redistribution, ending poverty, gender equality, etc.] “advance a program of soft global governance that is inconsistent with U.S. sovereignty and adverse to the rights and interests of Americans.” I think that is the first time I have heard the term “soft global governance,” but it may fit Bible prophecy. Events may go from “soft global governance” – Ten Kings – to “hard global governance” – the devastating government of the Antichrist. World leaders may try to deceive nations with “soft global governance” before it is transformed into “hard global governance.”)

Here are some recent events that seem to indicate that this End-Times good news and global havoc are near.

One, concerning the global attitude toward Israel: on Mar. 8, 2025, Greg Denham (Senior Pastor of Rise Church in San Marcos, Cal.) asked,

  • What will it take for the world to confront the evil realities being carried out in the name of “Palestinian liberation?”
  • I still have a vivid picture of the stunningly beautiful Bibas children with their red hair – full of life and laughter.
  • Violently kidnapped from their home in Israel, they have now returned from Gaza in coffins, as forensic evidence revealed that they had been brutally murdered.
  • The blame must be laid at the feet of these demoniacs from Gaza, who are a scourge to all mankind.
  • But it does not stop there.
  • Because it also extends to the nations which chose to turn a blind eye to fact-based truth, moral clarity, and the courage to stand up to the Islamic Nazis of our time by doing the right thing.
  • Silence in the face of evil is also evil.
  • The failure to expose it and the urgency to fight against it allows innocent lives to be snuffed out by Satanic darkness and the death cult of our time.

(My Opinion: Pastor Denham’s question and answer clearly reveals the global hatred for Israel and Israel’s God, the willful self-blinding of world leaders, and the satanic wickedness of Islam. Because Israel’s God is God, and He has revealed the future, we can know that the Rapture and the Tribulation Period are near.)

Two, concerning the global attitude toward Israel and the satanic wickedness of Islam: on Mar. 10, 2025, in a letter to the U.S. Senate, several members of Israeli religious groups and members of the Israeli Knesset called upon the senators to promote a declaration in Congress to recognize the eternal and inalienable right of the Jewish people to the Temple Mount.

They told the senators the Temple Mount is the place where Israel’s Temples stood, which were destroyed by the Babylonians about 2,500 years ago and again by the Romans about 1,900 years ago.

They added:

  • Today, while the sovereign State of Israel guarantees access to holy sites for all religions, the Jewish people are denied full and free access to their holiest site due to heavy international pressure.
  • This decision is not just a symbolic gesture but a declaration of truth, a declaration of religious freedom, and the restoration of historical justice.

(My Opinion: King David bought the property where Solomon built the first Temple. Zerubbabel rebuilt the second Temple, and the Romans destroyed it. But Satan has blinded world leaders, and they refuse to accept the Bible as the Word of God. The good news is that God gave that land to the Jews forever, and the bad news is that a showdown is coming.)

Three, concerning the global attitude toward Israel and the satanic wickedness of Islam: on Mar. 16, 2025, it was reported that:

  • The Islamic government of Qatari has been giving money to Brown University.
  • Brown University has developed a curriculum that is being used by more than 8,000 schools to teach more than one million K-12 students.
  • Anti-Israel bias has been incorporated into the curriculum.

Four, concerning Hamas’ effort to destroy Israel: on Mar. 13, 2025, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution that demands the toppling of the Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip and calls upon Pres. Trump to aggressively target Iran’s funding of the Hamas terrorist organization.

  • Lindsey Graham said, “With one voice, the Senate said Hamas cannot be in charge of Gaza militarily or politically ever again.”
  • Richard Blumenthal said Hamas is an anathema to the Palestinians as well as to Israel.
  • Tom Cotton called Hamas a murderous terrorist group with American and Israeli blood on their hands.

(My opinion: I don’t know where things will go from here, but God gave the land from the river to the sea to Israel.)

(More: Joel Rosenberg believes the Bible may teach that Gaza will be emptied and then returned to Israel; Zeph. 2:4-7).

(Update: On Mar. 17, 2025, the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas ended. Israel attacked several targets in Gaza. Israel’s Prime Min. Netanyahu said Israel will continue to attack Hamas with increasing military strength. Israel’s Defense Min. Katz said If Hamas does not free all of the hostages, the gates of hell will open on Gaza and the murderous Hamas rapists will encounter the IDF in a force they have not yet known.)

(Update: On Mar. 18, 2025, Israel assassinated four of the six most senior Hamas officials in Gaza. They may have assassinated all six but have not yet confirmed the death of two.)

(Update: On Mar. 18, 2025, Israeli jets opened the Gates of Hell on Hamas by striking 80 targets in ten minutes. Local health officials said more than 400 people were killed.)

Five, concerning Damascus ceasing to exist in one night at the end of the age: on Mar. 11-12, 2025, Israeli jets struck several terrorist targets in Damascus.

On Mar. 13, 2025, Israel’s Defense Min. warned the new government of Syria:

  • Wherever terrorist activity is organized against Israel, Syria will find Israeli plans circling overhead and attacking the terrorist targets.
  • We will not allow Syria to become a threat to the State of Israel.

Six, concerning wars and rumors of wars: on Mar. 14, 2025, it was reported that Poland wants the U.S. to locate nuclear weapons on Polish soil as a deterrence against Russian aggression.

Seven, concerning wars and rumors of wars: on Mar. 15, 2025, Pres. Trump ordered a series of airstrikes on Yemen and promised to use lethal force until the Houthis stop attacking ships in the waterways of the world.

Trump said,

  • To all Houthi terrorists, your time is up, and your attacks must stop, starting today. If they don’t, hell will rain down upon you like nothing you have ever seen before!
  • To Iran: Support for the Houthi terrorists must end immediately! Do not threaten the American People, their President, who has received one of the largest mandates in Presidential History, or Worldwide shipping lanes. If you do, BEWARE, because America will hold you fully accountable, and we won’t be nice about it!

(More: On Mar. 16, 2025, it was reported that US strikes against Houthi terrorists in Yemen killed fifty people, including the Houthis’ security chief, and wounded hundreds. The Houthis said they will retaliate. On Truth Social, Trump said, “Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked upon, from this point forward, as being a shot fired from the weapons and leadership of Iran, and Iran will be held responsible and suffer the consequences, and those consequences will be dire!”)

(More: On Mar. 16, 2025, U.S. Sec. of Defense, Pete Hegseth, said, “The attacks will continue until the Houthis say, ‘We’re done shooting at ships.’”)

Eight, concerning wars and rumors of wars: on Mar. 13, 2025, Iraq and the U.S. joined forces to assassinate the number two global leader of ISIS.

He was in Iraq and considered to be one of the most dangerous terrorists in the world.

Nine, concerning possible corruption in government: on Mar. 16, 2025, Pres. Trump declared former Pres. Biden’s last-minute pardons (Dr. Fauci, the J6 Committee, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, etc.) are null and void because they were signed with an autopen.

According to Trump, it is possible that Biden didn’t even know about the pardons, and whoever used the autopen may have committed a crime.

FYI: God does not send anyone to Hell (all of us are born with a sin nature and destined to go to Hell because we sin), but God has provided a way (Jesus) for everyone to go to Heaven (and He is the only way to get there; John 14:6).

Finally, are you Rapture Ready?

If you want to be rapture ready and go to heaven, you must be born again (John 3:3). God loves you, and if you have not done so, sincerely admit that you are a sinner; believe that Jesus is the virgin-born, sinless Son of God who died for the sins of the world, was buried, and raised from the dead; ask Him to forgive your sins, cleanse you, come into your heart and be your Saviour; then tell someone that you have done this.

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